Letters to the editor: Response to women’s march, Obama goodbye, and Journal at 30
Jewish Journal
February 9, 2017
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The twisted tale of ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ and the Nazis
Tom Tugend
September 1, 2016
Adam and Eve are in the news again, or at least two medieval paintings of the biblical progenitors of the human race are.\n\n
Letters to the editor: Lee Baca, Memorial Day, Trump and more
Jewish Journal
June 8, 2016
The issue is not why Congregation Bais Naftoli, an Orthodox synagogue, chose to honor ex-Sheriff Lee Baca at its annual event (“Ex-Sheriff Awaiting Sentencing Honored by Orthodox Congregation,” June 3).
Letters to the editor: Tom Tugend, Hillary Clinton, Wexler’s Deli and more
Jewish Journal
June 1, 2016
In these times of unfettered narcissism, especially among current political candidates, it is inspiring to read Tom Tugend’s thoughtful essay exploring his war history and the question of heroism (“Looking Back at War on Memorial Day,” May 27).
Looking back at war on Memorial Day
Tom Tugend
May 26, 2016
In the name of the president of the French Republic, Consul General of France in Los Angeles Christophe Lemoine inducted me on March 9 into his country’s Legion of Honor, a distinction established by Napoleon in 1802.
Letters to the editor: UC Irvine Hillel; Prager, Carson and guns; Solar power
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2015
David Suissa mischaracterized the work UC Irvine Hillel is doing on campus (“The Knife War Is Not Evenhanded,” Oct. 23).
Witnesses to Kristallnacht
Jane Ulman
November 6, 2014
On a Wednesday evening in late 1938, the sounds of broken glass shattered the quiet streets of Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
Moving and Shaking: AJC gives 2013 Community Service Award, Taste of Summer raises $87,000
Ryan Torok
August 1, 2013
Rabbis Joshua Aaronson of Temple Judea in Tarzana, Ken Chasen of Leo Baeck Temple in Bel Air, Denise Eger of Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood and Stewart Vogel of Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills were recently named senior rabbinic fellows at the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI), following the rabbis’ completion of the institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative.
Israel and Nov. 29
Tom Tugend
December 5, 2012
“The Vote,” the best show in town, opened at 7:45 p.m. on Nov. 29 and, after 23 acts, closed down 60 minutes later. During that one hour, speakers, actors, musicians, singers and dancers commemorated the day, 65 years ago, when the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.
Films of the Holocaust and non-Jews
Tom Tugend
November 8, 2012
Two documentary films, each touching the Holocaust era and celebrating the courage and devotion of non-Jews, are screening in Los Angeles. The first is about Leopold Engleitner, bright-eyed and lucid at 107, who spent 11 years in and out of prisons and Nazi concentration camps, and, after a flight from Vienna to Los Angeles, is ready for his personal appearance tour.
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